78rpm vs. 33 1/3rpm
Tom, I am sure right after you stopped recording you realized that 78s are not the "slow records" but the faster records. 78rpm is faster than 33 1/3rpm which is the more common record.
Chris

French BlackBerry ban
OK, after reading this, the first thought that popped into my head was that Steve Jobs performed some Apple Jedi mind trick on the French legislative body to get them to abandon the BlackBerry just in time for the iPhone debut. Then I figured it was probably just some silly French paranoia "thing" toward foreign technology.

I mean, what secrets would we want from their officials we don't already know? Some secret to help us dominate the Tour de France...oh, wait...we already "pwn" that!!

Dennis O.
Powell, Ohio

Vertical farming
Hey TVMJ,

Here's an interesting article about skyscraper farms in New York.

It was too sci-fi-ish not to pass along... Now they just need to integrate cloning into the enterprise, and we'll be all set.

Jon in Indiana

What is a cylon?
So I've been listening to you guys talk about "cylon babies" for awhile now and I had finally had enough. First I googled silon (mmm, membranes!), then sylon (no clue) and then cylon (something from some sci-fi TV show). I could go further and find out which TV show, assuming that's what you're talking about, but I just don't have that kind of time!

If you feel like clarifying your reference, I would appreciate it, but if not, I'll just figure it's another reference I would get if I had cable. (By the way, just as a demographic marker for you, and because it was brought up on today's show, I would totally go for a la carte cable to get the few channels I might actually want to watch. Until it arrives, I will stay unplugged and un-ripped-off.)

Love the show.
Shelly